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INSIDE the neonatal intensive-care unit at the County Medical Center, the lights are dim and the tone is hushed. Three-week-old Natasha lies connected to a respirator, a heart monitor and an infusion pump through which she receives fat, carbohydrates and proteins intravenously. The baby, born at...

America is losing sight of its children. In decisions made every day we are placing them at the very bottom of our agenda with grave consequences for the future of the nation. That grim assessment comes from an impressively authoritative voice on American education, the Carnegie Foundation...

LEAD: The infant mortality rate in the United States reached the lowest level ever last year, but it remains higher than those in many industrialized nations, Federal health officials reported yesterday.

LEAD: It's almost October, the first Presidential debate is upon us, but where are the issues in the campaign? There's plenty of posturing, like Michael Dukakis posing helmeted aboard a tank. There's no end of puffed-up patriotism, like George Bush, dauntless defender of the Pledge of Allegiance,...

LEAD: New York City's Chief Medical Examiner yesterday released the results of an autopsy that he said largely exonerated New York Hospital in the death of a critically ill infant during a power failure last week.